‘The Way You Look Tonight’, written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, marks 90 years since its copyright and remains one of the most enduring songs of the 1930s. First performed by Fred Astaire in the 1936 film Swing Time, it became a standard across film, jazz and popular music, demonstrating its unusual ability to remain familiar to successive generations.

The song won the Academy Award for best original song in 1937, making Fields the first woman to win the category; no other woman did so until 1969. Astaire’s recording entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, while later versions included hits by Benny Goodman, Peggy Lee and The Lettermen, whose 1961 rendition reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was revived again through recordings by artists including Tony Bennett, Neil Diamond, Bryan Ferry, Rod Stewart and Michael Bublé.